The Eurovision Song Contest season is really on us now. It seems the lucky fan with the right satellite receivers and the right high speed internet connections can watch a qualifying round every other night from now until the first week or so of March.

Euroblogger is so busy watching every national semi-final that there's hardly any time to craft the round-up of all the juicy Song Contest rumours flying around the Internet. So for once let's do this as a series of tabloid-style “blind items”.